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Stuck in top left corner. These should help.
1a Physician became dictator's prisoner (5) ??D??
14a As fruit, cut by length four times (9) ??A???P?E
16a Confused report of more profound times (2,1,4) ??/A/???E

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16 In A Daze, confused - sounds like In A Day's.
1 Hidden in the clue!

14a QUADRUPLE - QUa (As) + DRUPE (Fruit) around L(ength)

14 Quadruple, four times
Qua - Latin for As
Drupe - fruit (it's in Bradford's, that's all I know), with
L, length, inside.

1A physician became dictator’s prisoner -
Medic = physician, contained in “becaME DICtator”